To dish out.

1. To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table. 2. (Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.

To dish up, to take (food) from the oven, pots, etc., and put in dishes to be served at table.

Dishabilitate
(Dis`ha*bil"i*tate) v. t. [Cf. Disability.] To disqualify. [R.]

Dishabille
(Dis`ha*bille") n. [See Deshabille.] An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.

They breakfast in dishabille.
Smollett.

Dishabit
(Dis*hab"it) v. t. [Pref. dis- + habit to inhabit.] To dislodge. [Obs.]

Those sleeping stones . . . from their fixed beds of lime
Had been dishabited.
Shak.

Dishabited
(Dis*hab"it*ed), p. a. Rendered uninhabited. "Dishabited towns." R. Carew.

Dishabituate
(Dis`ha*bit"u*ate) v. t. To render unaccustomed.

Dishable
(Dis*ha"ble) v. t.

1. To disable. [Obs.]

2. To disparage. [Obs.]

She oft him blamed . . . and him dishabled quite.
Spenser.

Dishallow
(Dis*hal"low) v. t. To make unholy; to profane. Tennyson.

Nor can the unholiness of the priest dishallow the altar.
T. Adams.

Disharmonious
(Dis`har*mo"ni*ous) a. Unharmonious; discordant. [Obs.] Hallywell.

1. A vessel, as a platter, a plate, a bowl, used for serving up food at the table.

She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
Judg. v. 25.

2. The food served in a dish; hence, any particular kind of food; as, a cold dish; a warm dish; a delicious dish. "A dish fit for the gods." Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Home-home dishes that drive one from home.
Hood.

3. The state of being concave, or like a dish, or the degree of such concavity; as, the dish of a wheel.

4. A hollow place, as in a field. Ogilvie.

5. (Mining) (a) A trough about 28 inches long, 4 deep, and 6 wide, in which ore is measured. (b) That portion of the produce of a mine which is paid to the land owner or proprietor.

Dish
(Dish), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dishing.]

1. To put in a dish, ready for the table.

2. To make concave, or depress in the middle, like a dish; as, to dish a wheel by inclining the spokes.

3. To frustrate; to beat; to ruin. [Low]


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